Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

@ds 100% correct post. JC is responsible and should be fired asap!

Unfortunately, we have no clue how ODW is going in the eyes of Leadership. Maybe they know it's so friggin' bad that come he11 or highwater, they are moving to fix it. If the endgame is to have a single source of information for AI to be successful, they are moving towards it. The rumblings and grumblings of personnel doesn't factor into it.

All Tech companies are doing the exact same thing. They are moving towards AI.

Keep a reserve fund of two years or more in case you get fired.

Bigger house? Better car? More kids? Think long and hard about what is happening and act accordingly.

@at Who ultimately signed off on it? If it’s JC then yes, he’s 100% responsible. It’s called being a leader. The buck stops with them. Period. Tired of all these “leaders” pushing cr-p down and pointing the finger at us when it doesn’t work. They don’t listen to their teams. Everyone who has ever been in a leadership position knows you take the hit. But no JC got a multimillion dollar bonus for deploying a train wreck. Only cowards let others take the fall.

Well, what do you expect if those in IT and project mgmt who highlighted the risks and requested more time before go-live were sacked all the way from the top? Every day people who're fixing ODW are being let go at Dell, while Deloitte assigns clueless entry-level indians to work on this mess. In the meantime JC is beating the drum to go ahead full speed regardless of the actual state of the system and MD's inner circle sugarcoates all the news for him since the man's incapable of accepting any criticisms.

Maybe think about other stuff on a Sunday and not get wrapped around the axle on ODW

@am I guarantee you MD doesn't care. If he did he would have (should have) fired JC on the spot for the ODW cluster fck rollout rather than paying him millions and millions of dollars in bonus for a phony completion date.

Who is really accountable here? I know the knee-je-k reaction is to point the finger at JC, and perhaps that's justified. But he's not personally responsible for creating or developing the system.

There has to be a management structure and a chain of accountability beneath him. So who is actually responsible for delivering this disaster, who's overseeing it, and why isn't his or her head on a (metaphorical) spike?

The average age of a billionaire is 69, so we've got another eight years of this, boys and girls.

Jokes aside, I happen to know that MD is extremely conscious of his health. His own father is still alive and kicking, so there's every chance he'll be around for a long time yet.

And let's be honest, we don't want Mr. Slabbers-a-Lot BS or Mr. Tantrum T-Shirt Man, JC, taking the helm anytime soon!

MD was once the second-richest man in the world. He's now sixth.

Perhaps he's perfectly happy sitting at number six, thinking, what's the problem? Clearly, he's doing something right.

Maybe, just maybe, he'll eventually take notice that the company he built into a global powerhouse is now an absolute shambles, with morale seemingly at rock bottom and so many employees hating what it's become, horse manure.

Surely that kind of negativity and disengagement can't be good for a business. Or does he somehow thrive on it? He's only interested in AI not people and their meaningless lives.

Now that the ODW noise is echoing around RR, will MD stand up and take notice, does he care? In my long career across many tech companies, I've never seen anything is bad, it’s like they want to put themselves out of business.

No words. So so so bad. And no one will openly admit this was an unprecedented fu-k up. The time it’s going to take to untangle the absolute mess of date is sickening. Not to mention ALLLLLL the lost revenue and compensation issues coming. Which I’m sure they’ll blame on the core teams who are trying their hardest to keep customers calm and do whatever the he-l they can to attempt to get quotes and orders flowing. So many tickets we have to HIRE help to manage them?! WTAF is happening DELL?!?!?!

No. They seriously sc--wed up. There was no testing, and if there was one, it was with ideal data with which it kind of worked. So they gave green light. Now with the global rollout, they hit the reality and to their surprise it didn't work. Overall, they made it so super complicated, that nobody seems to know how to configure it so it actually works.